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Es una réplica exacta del molino originario del siglo XIV cuyas ruinas permanecen junto a su reproducción. El molino de viento harinero se ha convertido en el atractivo turístico más importante de la zona y se ha consolidado como el símbolo del valle de Ocón. Desde el cerro en el que se encuentra, a 800 m de altitud, se divisa un hermoso paisaje formado por las estribaciones de Sierra La Hez, declarada reserva mundial de la biosfera por la UNESCO, y el valle del Ebro.
These were formed by splashing water along the edge of the Ottawa River.
Celles-ci ont été formées en éclaboussant l'eau le long du bord de la rivière des Outaouais.
Here's the same Buckeye - fresh with beautiful colors, at the wetlands, 2 days ago. North Georgia
WEATHER: first time Atlanta hit 90o in October since 1954! More 90o ahead ...
Continuing with my explorations in virtual geometric sculptural forms - This is my creation for Epicene's Round III
Distorted reflections of overhanging tree branches in a slow-flowing stream.
720nm IR-converted Olympus EM1 + Carl Zeiss Jena DDR 135mm, M42.
Para leer en forma interrogativa.
Has visto
verdaderamente has visto
la nieve los astros los pasos afelpados de la brisa
Has tocado
de verdad has tocado
el plato el pan la cara de esa mujer que tanto amás
Has vivido
como un golpe en la frente
el instante el jadeo la caída la fuga
Has sabido
con cada poro de la piel sabido
que tus ojos tus manos tu sexo tu blando corazón
había que tirarlos
había que llorarlos
había que inventarlos otra vez.
Julio Cortázar.
Mala Mala Game Reserve
Near Kruger National Park
South Africa
The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large Sub-Saharan African bovine. Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the typical subspecies found in South and East Africa. The adult buffalo's horns are its characteristic feature: they have fused bases, forming a continuous bone shield across the top of the head referred to as a "boss".
Cape Buffalo are suspected to kill around 200 people every year. They typically will charge and gore their victims and have been known to trample people as well. When you see Cape Buffalo roaming in Africa, they're usually not alone. Weighing in at over 1500 lbs, even most lions don't dare bother hunting this aggressive beast unless the lions are in a huge pride. – Wikipedia
La Senda del Oso es una vía verde en el centro de Asturias, que recorre los Valles del Oso, formados por los concejos de Proaza, Quirós, Teverga y Santo Adriano, que se puede recorres tanto a pie como en bicicleta. Se trata de una antigua vía ferroviaria por donde circulaba hasta el año 1964 un ferrocarril minero que transportaba el carbón desde las localidades de Santa Marina y Entrego, hasta Trubia, en el concejo de Oviedo.
Esta senda transita, en gran parte, por un espectacular bosque atlántico, convirtiéndose en una ruta sencilla, apta para todos los públicos, con un poco de desnivel, siendo un excelente plan para realizar en familia, en solitario o con amigos.
La Senda del Oso tiene aproximadamente unos 30 km de longitud, comienza en Tuñón, en el concejo de Santo Adriano, recorre todo el concejo de Proaza y finaliza en entrego (Teverga) y Santa Marina (Quirós), pudiendo disfrutar a lo largo del recorrido, de varios túneles horadados en la roca, del cercado osero, desfiladeros, etc.
Se debe de efectuar en varias etapas, para disfrutar totalmente de la senda, estas son:
TUÑÓN–PROAZA = 6 KM – PROAZA–CARANGA = 5 KM – CARANGA–ENTREGO = 10 KM Y CARANGA- SANTA MARINA = 13 KM
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring. The tulip's flowers are usually large and are actinomorphic (radially symmetric) and hermaphrodite (contain both male (androecium) and female (gynoecium) characteristics), generally erect, or more rarely pendulous, and are arranged more usually as a single terminal flower, or when pluriflor as two to three (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica), but up to four, flowers on the end of a floriferous stem (scape), which is single arising from amongst the basal leaf rosette. 11717
The first time I saw a Short-tailed Hawk it was in a Cypress Tree having lunch. I looked and looked through my bird books and references online and couldn't identify it. It was a dark phased individual and everywhere I had been looking showed it in its light phase, like this one. When I saw this one soaring down in Miami, I was pretty sure that it was a Short-tailed. Looking at images online I believe that this one is a juvenile. The adult has a more distinctively dark head and whiter chest and belly. They eat smaller birds, like grackles, red-winged black birds and meadowlarks. I've read that they hunt from the air, often making a series of swoops down taking their prey off a perch or possibly in the air. It's a sight I've never seen and only rarely see this species. (Buteo brachyurus)
Correction. Thanks to the help of several folks and my own research I've determined that this is a Red-shouldered Hawk. (I hope I'm right.) Short tailed hawks have a cleaner belly and chest and the light phase has a very dark head and the white of the chest forms a thick line up to the bill. Learning is half the fun.
Projeto Artístico fotográfico "Lisboa, com Outra Alma"
Ver e observar Lisboa com outro olhar...com outra Alma.
Palácio Nacional da Ajuda/ Lisboa
O Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, antigo palácio real e monumento nacional, é hoje um magnífico museu e o único palácio visitável em Lisboa que ainda conserva, de um modo fidedigno, a disposição e decoração das salas ao gosto do séc. XIX, nomeadamente os aposentos dos monarcas e a sala de trono. Situado no alto da colina da Ajuda, com vista deslumbrante sobre o rio Tejo, o Palácio integra importantes coleções de artes decorativas dos séculos XVIII e XIX: ourivesaria, tapeçaria, mobiliário, vidro e cerâmica, bem como coleções de pintura, gravura, escultura e fotografia.
These lovely roses were taken in our garden this summer 2024.
A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing or trailing with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and often are fragrant. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 7 meters in height. Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses.
The name rose comes from French, itself from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek ρόδον rhódon (Aeolic βρόδον wródon), itself borrowed from Old Persian wrd- (wurdi), related to Avestan varəδa, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr.
The leaves are borne alternately on the stem. In most species they are 5 to 15 centimetres (2.0 to 5.9 in) long, pinnate, with (3–) 5–9 (–13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets usually have a serrated margin, and often a few small prickles on the underside of the stem. Most roses are deciduous but a few (particularly from South east Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.
The flowers of most species have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. There are multiple superior ovaries that develop into achenes. Roses are insect-pollinated in nature.
The aggregate fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Many of the domestic cultivars do not produce hips, as the flowers are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g. Rosa pimpinellifolia) have dark purple to black hips. Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, the hypanthium, which contains 5–160 "seeds" (technically dry single-seeded fruits called achenes) embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs. Rose hips of some species, especially the Dog Rose (Rosa canina) and Rugosa Rose (Rosa rugosa), are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as thrushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly finches, also eat the seeds.
Rose thorns are actually prickles - outgrowths of the epidermis. While the sharp objects along a rose stem are commonly called "thorns", they are technically prickles — outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem). (True thorns, as produced by e.g. Citrus or Pyracantha, are modified stems, which always originate at a node and which have nodes and internodes along the length of the thorn itself.) Rose prickles are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as Rosa rugosa and Rosa pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight prickles, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots (both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes). Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer. A few species of roses have only vestigial prickles that have no points.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose
einer Form, ohne das in den unsichtbaren Teilen derselben sich eine neue Form zu bilden anfange, die mit der Zeit sich den Sinnen offenbart. Jeder Untergang ziehlt auf eine Entstehung, jeder Tod bahnt den Weg zu einem neuen Leben.
Moses Mendelssohn
La Cofradía de la Santa Vera Cruz de San Vicente de la Sonsierra mantiene el rito de ‘Los picaos’. Esta forma de penitencia es una de las más peculiares y populares en Semana Santa no sólo en La Rioja sino en toda España.
Aunque no se tiene constancia del momento de su fundación, se sabe que en 1551 sus estatutos fueron presentados y aprobados en 1551 y en un acta de este mismo siglo se menciona la celebración de este rito desde tiempo inmemorial. La flagelación penitencial era frecuente en pueblos y ciudades de España hasta que en el siglo XVIII fue prohibida por Carlos III. San Vicente de la Sonsierra es el único lugar en el que perdura hasta nuestros días.
The Horizontal Falls are formed from a break in-between the McLarty Ranges reaching up to 25m in width. The natural phenomenon is created as seawater builds up faster on one side of the gaps than the other, creating a waterfall up to 5m high. Within each change of the tide the direction of the falls reverses, creating vast tidal whirlpools. (Wikipedia)
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The Rakaia river It rises in the Southern Alps, travelling 150 kilometres in a generally easterly or southeasterly direction before entering the Pacific Ocean 50 kilometres south of Christchurch. It forms a hapua as it reaches the ocean.
(A hapua is a river-mouth lagoon on a mixed sand and gravel beach, formed at the river-coast interface where a typically braided, although sometimes a meandering river interacts with a coastal environment that is significantly affected by longshore drift.)
From Wikipedia.
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird showing perfect form on the approach to the firecracker plant. My backyard. Central Bucks, PA.
Taken back in May, and to be honest, I've no idea as to what it was, not a clue, but the points of light were extremely tiny. Definitely a macro, just wish I could remember 'a macro of what'!
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The Church are an Australian alternative rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave, neo-psychedelia, and indie rock, their music later came to feature slower tempos and surreal soundscapes reminiscent of dream pop and post-rock. "this unique Sydney-originated entity has purveyed a distinctive, ethereal, psychedelic-tinged sound which has alternatively found favour and disfavour in Australia." The Los Angeles Times has described the band's music as "dense, shimmering, exquisite guitar pop" (from Wikipedia).
Sometime in history, there was here, in what we know as Mérida, Yucatán, México, a worship place for the Mayan god Itzamná, however, Spanish conquerors, built over it a little chapel in 1572 and many years later a temple dedicated to Saint Michel Archangel. At this time, it remains the baptismal font in the restored Church of Itzimná.
En algún momento de la historia existió, en lo que hoy se conoce como barrio de Itzimná, un adoratorio dedicado al Dios maya Itzamná, sin embargo los conquistadores decidieron construir en 1572 una pequeña capilla y años más tarde el templo donde por muchos años se veneró al Cristo de las Esquipulas y dedicado también a San Miguel Arcángel. De la primera capilla se conserva aún la pila bautismal en lo que ahora es la ya renovada Parroquia de la Señora del Perpetuo Socorro en veneración a dicha Virgen.
en-yucatan.com.mx/merida-yucatan/iglesias/itzimna/
The Unguarded Moment: youtu.be/qQvr2eF5zMM
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Masai Mara Game Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
The plains zebra (Equus quagga), also known as the common zebra, or locally as the "quagga" is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. It ranges from the south of Ethiopia through East Africa to as far south as Botswana and eastern South Africa.
The plains zebra remains common in game reserves, but is threatened by human activities such as hunting for its meat and hide, as well as competition with livestock and encroachment by farming on much of its habitat.
The plains zebra is a highly social species, forming harems with a single stallion, several mares and their recent offspring; there are also bachelor groups. Groups may come together to form herds. The animals keep watch for predators rather than attempting to hide; they bark or snort when they see a predator, and the harem stallion attacks predators to defend his harem.\
The species population is stable and not endangered, though some populations such as in Tanzania have declined sharply. – Wikipedia
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MLC Centre architecture cannot be overlooked. With elegantly contoured, stark white concrete, white quartz and glass, the façade presents itself as a handsomely moulded sculpture.
Harry Seidler AC QBE is a luminary of Australian architecture. Widely considered as the first architect to fully express the Bauhaus aesthetic here. The MLC Centre remains one of his most definitive works on the Sydney Skyline.
244m to antenna and 227m to roof. The MLC Centre was Sydney’s tallest building in Sydney from 1977 to 1992. It is currently the fifth tallest building behind the Meriton World Tower (230m), Deutsche Bank Place (240m), Citigroup Centre (243m) and Chifley Tower (244m). The tallest structure in Sydney is still the Sydney Tower at 309m.
Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon. Buckfast has been home to an abbey since 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed by a Savignac (later Cistercian) abbey constructed on the site of the current abbey in 1134. The monastery was surrendered for dissolution in 1539, with the monastic buildings stripped and left as ruins, before being finally demolished. The former abbey site was used as a quarry, and later became home to a Gothic mansion house.
In 1882 the site was purchased by a group of French Benedictine monks, who refounded a monastery on the site, dedicated to Saint Mary. New monastic buildings and a temporary church were constructed incorporating the existing Gothic house. Work on a new abbey church, which was constructed mostly on the footprint of the former Cistercian abbey, started in 1907. The church was consecrated in 1932 but not completed until 1938.
Buckfast was formally reinstated as an Abbey in 1902, and the first abbot of the new institution, Boniface Natter, was blessed in 1903. The abbey continues to operate as a Benedictine foundation today.
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